The Victory of Patience, Table of contents
THE TABLE.
A
AS our sufferings Abound, our consolations …bound also,
189, 190
We are apt to thinke God Absent in trouble,
189
If his enemy Accuse him, he will more accuse himselfe,
98
Distinguish betweene the good which is of God, and the evill which is of man in the same Action,
184 to 187
Never the freer from guilt or punishment for that hand which God hath in their offensive Actions,
…85, 186
Gods former Actions are patternes of his future,
207
Rules for our Actions,
166 to 171
Nothing Accomplished here, which is no…first decreed in Heaven,
196, 197
Suffering a notable signe of our Adoption,
52 to 54
Adversity teaches the way to Heaven,
30
That all Afflictions come by the speciall providence of God,
193, to 222
Every maine Affliction is our red sea▪
5…
Affliction bringeth repentance,
…
Seldome awakened but by Affliction,
16, 17
Affliction makes knowne the graces of God in us,
10 to 14
One Affliction doth us more good then many Sermons,
17
Affliction makes us importunate,
25 to 29
Our enemies may Afflict us, cannot hurt us,
203
Our Afflictions shall be tollerable or short, either light or not long, not violent, or not last,
204
We that know not the Afflictions of others, call our owne the heaviest,
234
Sinnes, not Afflictions, argue God absent,
224
Afflictions not good of themselves, but by accident,
179
Afflictions come upon us like Sampsons Lion, and make us afraid,
172
Affliction workes amendment of life,
…0 to 25
Affliction the summe of Divinity,
17
Affliction the best Schoolemaster,
15 to 25
We are Afflicted, not over-pressed,
203
Affliction keepes us alwayes in a readinesse,
35, 36
Affliction makes us go to God by prayer,
25 to 2…
If not better for Affliction, we are worse,
173
All things are ours,
181
What makes the Angels rejoyce, makes men pow…e and stomack,
2, 3
Anger sometimes a vertue,
168
For God not to be Angry with a man is the greatest anger of all,
225
Anger a kinde of basenesse, and infirmity,
118
If God doe not Answer us in every thing, we take pleasure in nothing,
235
The best Answer, no answer,
124
A mocke Answer may cleane change their mindes,
133, 134, 135
Be Angry but sin not,
16…
Many have died by passionate Anger,
92
A…r a sore disease of the minde,
119
Application of the grounds of comfort,
246 to 249
We cannot Ascribe too little to our selves,
49 to 52
Sore Affliction will make us ascribe all to God,
49
B
BAnds of some imbolden others,
7
We must Beare with others, God beares with us,
158
If we are without correction, we are Bastards and not sons,
222
Satan must Beg leave of God before he can touch a haire of our heads, or a beast of our heards,
198 199
The weake Christian Beleeveth with some mixture of unbeleefe,
276
To Beleeve against reason and without knowledge of meanes, is heroicall,
58, 59
None but evill men will Beleeve their evill reports,
139
The severall Benefits of affliction,
24…
The sin theirs, the good which comes of it Gods, the Benefit ours,
185, 186
The praise of faith to Beleeve above hope,
39, 40
No such coward, none so valiant as the Beleever,
147
Much the better for our enemies,
203
We best know the worth of a Benefit by the want of it,
59 to …4
We are the Better for our being the worse,
180
God doth most Blesse us in crossing our desires.
249
The more they crosse or curse us, the more God will blesse us,
108 to 111
Pauls Blindnesse tooke away his blindnesse,
65
If sick, or in prison, or Blinde, or …a…e, we are the better for it,
176
The Bloud of the Martyrs is the seed of the Church,
8
The Body but the Barke, Cabinet, Case, or Instruments of the soule,
102
Good for the soule that the Body is sometimes sick,
48
Diseases of the Body are as medicines to the soule,
31
He that is Bor…e of God overcommeth the world,
12, 13
The Bondman goes on cheerefully when he cals to minde the yeare of jubilee, the Traveller when he thinkes upon his Inne,
240
C
ASsurance of Gods Call takes away the very feare of death,
147
Carelessenesse puts ill will out of countenance,
124 125
In some Cases to chastise may be lawfull and expedient,
168
Looke up from the stone to the hand, from the effect to the Cause,
96
Superiour Causes guide the subordinate,
197
One day may make a great Change,
255
He that will not be in Charity shall never be in Heaven,
104
Either Chastened here, or condemned hereafter,
243
The worse we were, if Changed, the more honour to us,
79, 80
Whom the Lord loves he Chastens,
222
We are Chastened that we may not be confounded,
43 to 49
It were ill for us if permitted our owne Choosers,
249
Christs actions our instructions,
157, 158
Christians put downe Philosophers in patience,
148 to 157
Christ did first descend into hell, and then had his ascension,
240
Christ and all the Saints our partners and partakers in the crosse,
229 to 237
Christ overcame by suffering,
84
Persecution inlargeth the Churches bounds,
7, 8, 9
Cherishing ever followes stripes,
58, 59
Comforted according to the dayes they are afflicted,
101, 102
When wee finde no Comfort abroad, wee seeke it at home,
16
Affliction bringeth the Company of God himselfe,
101, 102
The lesse Comfort we finde on Earth, the more wee seeke it from above,
30
The worldly man, on his bed of sicknesse, hath neither Comfort from God, or from others, or from himselfe,
221
Satans Commendations the greatest slander,
128, 129
If we have not already, we shall finde in the Conclusion that all is for the best,
180
He the greatest Conquerour that overcomes his own lusts,
12, 13
Not to Condemne a man before we heare him speak,
136
Spirituall Consolations late, but sudden,
209
When our Conflicts are most grievous, they are neere at an end,
209
The Christian so conquers himselfe that wrongs cannot conquer him,
69
Conscience as a thousand witnesses, Advocates, &c. to pleade procure, pronounce, &c.
170
To Contemne their Contempt,
117
Every small Contentment … our affections to the world,
175
The best Confutation of slanders is by our good workes,
75
Controversies like a paire of Cudgels are throwne in by the Devill,
88
A good Conscience like a true and constant friend,
75 to 80
By affliction we are made Co…formable to Christ our elder brother,
52, 53
To be exempt from misery, the most miserable Condition of all,
227
A good mans Constructions ever full of charity and favour,
117
We must not be of Gods Councell,
253
A good Conscience will not be put out of countenance,
75 to 80
Our Corruptions never appeare, till shaken by an injurie,
49 to 52
Maine evils have Crownes answerable,
108
God weighs to us favours and Crosses in an equall ballance,
220
Bearing the Crosse with Christ, a great preferment,
257
Our Crosses prove blessings,
43 to 49
A sound spirit, will beare the greatest Crosse,
111
Nothing but Cries can pierce Heaven,
27
That it is for our Credit to be evill spoken of,
126 to 130
The Crosse is counterpoysed and made sweet, with more than answerable blessings,
100 to 104
Patience breakes the stroake of every Crosse,
111
The sharpnesse of Crosses, Gods spirituall Hedge,
43 to 49
To be free from Crosses and afflictions, the priviledge of none but the Church triumphant,
233
The Cudgell not of use when the beast but only barkes,
85
They can beare injuries out of Custome,
67 to 73
Custome a second or new nature,
69 to 73
Custome makes any thing familiar and easie,
69 to 72
D
WHo would not be a Lazarus for a D…y, to be in Abrahams bosome for ever,
239
We are afflicted, that we may not be Damned,
43 to 49
Danger in being withou… dangers,
45 to 52
We should b… Deafe and dumbe at reproach,
120
Death hath nothing terrible in it, but what our life ha…h made so,
147
Death in Christs cause the way to heaven on Horseback,
122
The Martyrs even slighted Death,
122
Even Death it selfe shall worke our good,
181
He that is faithfull unto the Death, shall have the crowne of life,
238
Death ends our misery, and begins our glory,
241
Death, the wicked mans feare, the Godly mans with,
33, 34
If God Defer his helpe, it is on purpose that our trials may be perfect, our Deliverance welcome, our recompence glorious,
2…
The highest Degree of suffering not worthy the lowest degree of glory,
105
The greater Degree ▪ of grace, the greater degree of glory,
242
If God Delay us never so long, he will support us as long,
219
The Saints would not be delivered from Death,
243
Their Delights momentany, their punishment interminable,
105
Every Deliverance makes us more confident,
54 to 59
Gods Delivering some, increaseth the faith of others,
56
The more our Deliverances, the greater our faith,
54 to 59
Our comfort is the greater when the Deliverance is seene before it is expected,
212
Our Saviours sute which hee made as man, denied,
250
Denials sometimes better than grants,
250
If God Denies us what we aske, he gives us that which is better,
46
God rarely Deprives a man of one faculty, but he more than supplies it in another,
21
No better remedy for impatience, then to cast up our receipts; and compare them with our Deservings,
235
Gods people beare injuries patiently, because their sins have Deserved them,
94 to 100
What ever we suffer, we have Deserved more,
94 to 100
We indure nothing from our enemies, but what we have Deserved from God,
94 to 100
Without suffering we cannot be C…rists Discipl…s,
…2 to 54
We resem… the Devill if we … cruell
158
Th… Devill wounded with his owne weapon,
15 to 25
Some as willing to Dye as di…e,
106, 107
A Christian parley about Difficulties,
155
Let none D…sp…ire for God can helpe, none presume, fe…ing God can crosse them,
255
Let none Dismay us with the… p…oud lookes, nor big words,
203
We are too sensible of a prese… Distresse, ingratefull for favours past,
234
Hypocrites Discover themselves when persecution comes,
37 to 43
Prosperity Discovers …
38 to 43
Affliction Discovers …,
3… to 43
It is the lot of all Gods people … suffer e…ill,
…3
A D…minion over ones selfe the greatest conq…st,
80
85
E
THing …
61, 62
Actions to be …dged by …,
151
The End … the uprig… man is pea…e,
181
Enmity be…weene the good and bad,
1, 2, 3
E…equality the gro…nd of O…de…,
197
Our Enemi…s both prov… and …,
67 to 73
We sooner and more plain…y … Enemy,
94 to 100
The … Devill himselfe, do much pleasure us,
178
…
10
The Churches Enemies benefit the Church,
66
Our Enemies more to be pittied than maligned,
118 to 123
Better the Es…ate perish than the soule,
30
To behold at once the whole Estate of a Christian, and not his present condition alone,
240
If we compare our owne Estate with our enemies, we have yet greater cause to be thankfull,
235, 236
The Evill of affliction, prevents the evill of sin,
43 to 49
Thanke God we Escape so,
94 to 100
Overcome Evill with goodnesse,
…42
Evils doe not come by chance, neither can they light where they list,
203
God Esteemes us according to what we are,
78, 79
Hee speeds well here that lives under a perpetuall Equinoctiall of good and evill,
233
Gods goodnesse makes our greatest Evils beneficiall unto us,
179
The redresse of Evill in a private person, is evill,
144
All the Evils that can befall us, make for our inestimable good and benefit,
178
Our care and …uit must be to have those Evils sanctified which cannot be averted,
228
Examin… whether we have well husbanded our afflictions,
171 to 174
Many Examples of Gods aide in extremity,
208
To be an Example to them and others,
133 to 137
Example will soo…est prevaile,
133 to 137
To raise comfort from former Experience,
…7
Experience the best informer,
67
Our Ex…mities drive us to him that is … potent,
211
Mans Extremity is Gods opportunity,
209
He that hath found God present in one Extremity may trust him in another,
207
All our former prayers and meditations, serve to aide us in our last straights, and meet together in the centre of our Extremity,
221
In all Extremities we must send faithfull and fervent prayer to Christ for ease,
28
A great Evill, not to be able to suffer evill,
92
F
WE learne to stand by Falling,
4…
It would Fare worse with us, were we our owne choosers,
32
Fathers hold in their own children, when they suffer the children of bondmen to doe as they list,
223
God hath much adoe … reclaime one of the worlds Favourites,
3…
Gods Former favours, arguments of more,
54 to 59
Hard for us to think it a speciall Favour and dignity to suffer, but so it is,
256
Of which many examples,
256, 257
Every sensible Favour of the Almighty, invites both his gifts, and our trust,
207
Nothing carries us so Far from God, as his favours,
32
No man ever▪ served with simple Favours,
23…
The Palate an ill Iudge of the Favours of God,
22…
Nothing more raiseth up the heart in present af…, than the … of Favours and wonders past,
207
… Divels can doe,
107
A strong Faith is not discouraged either with Gods silence or flat deniall,
57
Their Faith, valour, and patience, best made knowne by affliction,
10 to 14
The want of Faith made the Philosophers vertues but shining sins,
151
The praise of Faith to hold out to the last,
54 to 59
The Tree of Faith takes deeper root by shaking,
54 to 59
Suffering increaseth our Faith,
54 to 59
Do we Feare, and sorrow, and weep for the present, yet all shall be turned into joy everlasting,
259
Feare wee not them which can only kill the body, but God that can cast both body and soule into hell.
202
The answer of God to his people in al then ex…asies, hath ever been Feare not, feare not, &c.
258, 259
We may Feare our owne flesh as Paul did, but we have no cause, for God will support us with his grace,
201
In all Feasts the coursest meats are tasted first,
244
Few men can digest great felicity,
20
We must learne to Fence in the Schoole, before we fight in the field,
226
A F…ver doth not more burne up our bloud, then our lust,
21
The Philosophers could Forbeare, Christians Forgive,
15…
While we Fight one with another, the Devill overcomes both,
…8
…
120 85
…
Fervent when most in pai…e,
221
The Flesh and blinded appetite lookes on nothing but the shell and outside of things,
254
Motions of revenge come from the Fl…sh, the Spirit suggests better things,
145
God scourgeth the Flesh that the spirit may be saved,
43 to 49
God makes Fooles of the enemies of his Church,
195 196
Evill natures grow presumptuous upon Forbearance,
162 to 165
If God a little Forget us, we presently remember our selves,
49 to 52
We cannot pray aright except we forgive,
103
Nor communicate aright,
103
Nor be good hearers,
103
Yea, if we pray, it is that wee may bee condemned,
104
In reason a man would Forgive his enemy for his owne sake,
103 to 115
Not to be afflicted, is to be Forsake…,
225
Whosoever Forsakes any thing for Christ, shall receive an hundred fold more,
238
When we are made Free in glory, it shall not repent us that we indured a hard and strict apprentiship here,
241
A good change to have the Fier of affliction for the fire or hell,
177
Anger inflames a Foole sooner than a wise man,
82, 83
Prosperity makes us Forget God, adversity to remember him,
4… to 49
We must Forgive y… not be forgive… ▪ …,
1…, 144
If we Forgive we shall be forgiven, but not else,
104
Forgivenesse the most valiant kinde of revenge,
81 82
Mo…e la…dable to Forgive than revenge▪
80 to 85
More generous, more wise to Forgive than revenge,
80 to 85
If we Forgive not, we can do no part of Gods worship aright,
103, 104
Like Vines, we beare the more and better Fruit for paring and pruning,
24
G
OF…-…imes Gaine brings los…e,
20, 21
We Gaine by all our losses,
190
At a Lions Den or a fiery Furnace not to giv… our, were truly Generous,
235
No Generall Rule but admits of some exceptions,
83
Gentle speech appeaseth wrath,
85 to 94
I… Guilty of an enemies imputations, amend, otherwise contemne them.
75 to 80
Guiltinesse makes one feare what another would wish,
147
Our end in suffering must be the Glory of God,
151
Look upon his present torments together with the Glory following.
…48
A Glorious thing to be evill spoken of by evill men,
127 to 133
Our first parents had beene lesse Glorious, if they had not wanted a Saviou…,
186
It furthers Gods glory, and makes Sathan a looser,
195, 136
God doth resist our enemies, sustaine us when we faint, and crowne us when we overcome,
191, 192
God wils that as our chastisement, which he hates as the wickednesse of the agent,
186
God takes exact notice of our particular sufferings,
191, 192
If we are in l…gue with God, we need not feare the greatest of men,
196
God may be present, yet we not be pleased,
190
God is specially present with us in affliction,
187 to 193
God forbeares so long as we have any thing left to relye upon,
209
God scourgeth every son whom he receiveth,
2…2
The will of God may be done thankfully,
186
If God comes, it is to releeve us, if he stay, it is to try us,
253
Either God must humour us, or be distrusted,
189
God wils that, as it is a blessing, triall, or chastisement to us, which he … us the wickedne… of the agent,
185, 186
God will not bestow whipping where he loves not,
224
If God deny our suit, it is to make us more importunate,
26
We suffer wrongs patiently for Gods glory,
148 to 157
Moses and David meeke Lambes in their owne cause, fierc… Lione in Gods,
165
God cannot neglect us, if we distrust him not,
253
The praise and thanke…d we only to God,
186
The sight of our owne weaknesse makes us wholly rely upon God,
49 to 52
We must commit our cause to God,
137 to 142
God punisheth the worse, to spare the better part,
43 to 49
God will maintaine his owne cause,
139
God therefore gives because he hath given,
54 to 59
Gods goodnesse turnes all our poysons into Cordials,
179
Godlinesse and persecution inseparable,
1, 2, 3
We must acknowledge that God is good even when he strikes,
58
To be more sensible of Gods dishonour than our owne credit, a noat of uprightnesse,
165
Gods people grieve more for the cause, than the punishment,
15
None out of the place of torment, have suffered so much as the Godly.
224
Of which diverse examples,
224, 225
The Good we get by affliction should make us suffer cheerefully,
179
Every Good thing is from above,
183
Even sin it selfe workes our Good,
181
In doing Good to our enemies, we do more good to our selves,
104
God can easily worke Good by evill instruments,
186
Examples of returning good for evill,
151, 152
Not to doe Good for evill, is to intreat those Embassadours roughly which are sent in kindnesse and love,
143
All things shall worke together for our Greatest good ▪
180
The Good and bad irreconciliable,
3
It must needs be Good which evill men and Devils oppose,
127, to 133
To doe good to them that hurt us,
142
The greatest praise is to worke Good by evill instruments,
7, 8, 9
If ever we hope for Good our selves, we must returne good for evill unto others,
151
Goods and evils are as we apprehend them,
111
Wicked men grow worse, Good men better by affliction,
39
The Good things of the world make us worse,
21
If Gold, it will try us, if Iron, it will scowre away our rust,
22
Not to be Meale-mouthed in the Gospels cause,
164 165
The Graces of Gods children are made exemplary and they also put their enemies to silence by being tryed,
10 to 14
Graces, like the Stars, shine brightest in the night of affliction,
10 to 14, 39
Graces grow the faster for tempestious showres of affliction,
22
He is more supported of God that hath Grace give… him to conquer, than another that is excused to fight.
25…
Granting not alwayes the effect of love,
250
Satans request Granted, Pauls suit denied,
250
No greater symptome of Guiltinesse, then breaking into choler when accused,
75 to 80
Our Griefe shall issdolve, or be dissolved,
206
Repentance a supersedeaus for all Griefe,
19
Not over much Grieved when afflicted,
176
H
A Sound Heart and cleere conscience will abide all trials,
75 to 80
To no at whose Hand strikes, whether by a Sword, Pluresie, &c.
99
Woe were to us if we could not be Happy and know it not,
220
Paul Happier in his chaine of Iron, than Agrippa in his chaine of Gold,
101, 102
We may be Happy too soone,
32
A pure Heart the Fountaine of all well-doing,
150
The Heart doth not hatch all which the tongue speakes,
117
Patience saves the Heart, though the body suffer,
111
That which is Hard to suffer, is sweet to remember,
59 to 64
He that hath a go… Head-peece, seldome passionate,
82, 83
We are never neerer Helpe, than when we despaire of helpe,
212
To dayes Ague makes us forget yesterdayes Health, and all former favours,
234
How many stripes doe we thinke Heaven worth,
240
If we thinke upon our deliverance from Hell fire, it may make us both patient and thankefull,
235
This life is our Hell, the wickeds Heaven, the next shall be their Hell, and our Heaven,
239
God loves to shew his Helpe, when he findes us left of all other props,
212
We must not measure Gods Hearing of our suit, by his present answer, nor his present answer, by our owne sense,
251
In un…it supplications we are most Heard when repelled,
249
Heresies make for the good of Gods Church,
181
Good to Heare what is spoken of us, not who speaks it,
93
Hee Hides his face, never turnes his heart from us▪
205
A Mans Honour to passe by an offence,
8…, …3
Their reproach occasioneth God to … us the more,
103, 110
No praise to hold out, untill we be Hard driven,
212
God loves to give comfort to those that are forsake… of their Hopes,
20…
Of which many examples▪
209 to 213
Hope makes absent joyes present, wants, plenitudes, &c.
240
Honey out of the Lion,
247
Gods enemies Honour him,
5, 6
Their dispraise a mans Honour, their praise his dishonour,
1…7 to 133
No Sampson to whom every Lion yeelds not some honey,
173
Hope refresheth as much as miserie depresseth,
107
What will not Hope of reward make us do or suffer,
105, 106
Affliction makes Humble,
49 to 52
I
IAcob bound prentise, while prophane Esau rides a hunting,
223
Impatience the Cosin-german to frenzy,
83, 84
Consideration of our enemies Ignorance, may make us patient,
125 to 12…
Ignorance of the Scriptures, a maine cause of drooping,
247, …48
Our Imagination makes every day of our s…row like Ioshuas day,
…5…
Though we may be Importunate, impatient we may not be, stay he never so long,
216
Gods people behave themselves in case of wrong like dead Images,
119, 120
The Impatient, like Children, Fooles, Mad-men, yea, like Dogs,
91, 92
No greater signe of Innocency when accused than mildnesse,
75 to 80
Bare Injuries, not because they dare not revenge, but because they may not,
69
Patient Induring brings a Crowne,
104 to 115
Nothing can be too much to Indure for those pleasures which indure for ever,
239
God useth our enemies but as Instruments to worke his good pleasure on us,
193 to 222
Wee must take Injuries, but not provoke them by lenity,
167
Many times what God most Intendeth he sheweth least,
252
We must not so much looke to the Instrument as to the Author,
193 to 222
More beholding to a Providence than our owne Indeavour,
145, 146
Thinking to revenge an Injury, wee may begin one,
117
Light Injuries are made none by a not regarding,
116
Wee cannot Indure enough to come to Heaven,
20…
Best Instructed when most afflicted,
64 to 67
If we knew how profitable afflictions are▪ we would Indure any thing,
46 to 50
Innocency makes a man patient,
7… to 80
Though they goe weeping under the burden when they carry the precious seed of repentance, yet still they returne with Ioy, and bring their sheaves with them,
219
Christ alwayes returnes with increase of Ioy,
59 to 64
We are usually afflicted with the causes of our Ioy, and astonied with that which is intended for our confirmation,
258
Our sorrowes soone cease, but our Ioyes are everlasting,
239
Weeping may abide for a night, but Ioy commeth in the morning,
204
Out of griefe ariseth Ioy, gaine out of losse,
25
God allayeth our Ioy with the teares of affliction, to increase it,
59 to 64
Affliction increaseth our Ioy and thankfulnesse,
59 to 64
Let our eyes be on the Ioyes which follow, not on the paine which is present,
242
Their reward shall be according to the Intent, what ever the issue be,
184 to 187
Not Iudge of Gods proceeding untill the last act,
9
To Iustifie God in his judgements,
94 to 100
They but hasten us to Immortality,
122
K
THe Lord first Kille…h and then maketh alive,
21…
Suppose they Kill us, they still rather pleasure than hurt us,
1…
Vsuall for Kindnesse to look sternely for a time,
25…
Kisse the Rod we smart withall,
176
Our enemies Know n…ither what they say, not what they doe,
115 to 118
The Nurse Knowes better than the Infant what is good and fit for it,
117
L
SIlence or Laughter the best answer to scoffes,
124
He which breakes one Law, breakes all,
142, 143
Lawfull remedies allowed by God,
163
Not go to Law for trifles,
168
Our aime and end in going to Law, must not be the hurt of our enemy, but first, The glory of God; secondly, the reformation of the party, and others; thirdly, a further peace and quiet afterwards; fourthly, without heat or hate; fifthly, without using extremity, as more desiring peace, than victory,
168, 169
In case we finde no redresse, to rest contented with meeknesse and quietnesse,
169
Meditations, when the Law gives no redresse,
169 170
To commit our cause to God who is Chiefe-Justice of the whole world, and both can and will doe what is best,
169, 170
To make Conscience our Chauncery when wee goe to Law,
170
To make Charity or Iudge when wee goe to Law,
170
To make Patience our Counsellor when wee goe to Law,
170
To make Truth our Atourney when wee goe to Law,
170
To make Peace our Solicitor when wee goe to Law,
170
… Leprosie cured his leprosie,
65
… and happy not to bee worse with Liberty,
174
A wicked man had rather lose his soule than his Life.
147
A delicious Life makes us that we have no minde to go to Heaven,
29
Life and death alike welcome to the beleever,
147
The Dungeon gives more light than the Sun,
…5
God ordereth, Limiteth, and appointeth, the measure, quality, und continuance of every crosse,
193 to 22…
God will have us Live by faith, and not by sense,
54 to 5…
Suppose we Lose our lives yet we gaine by that losse,
201, 202
If wee Lose our lives, it is that wee may save our soules,
201
Hee that hath Lived well, is seldome unwilling to dye,
147
If we lost our lives, we shall not lose our labour,
107
Whether the bodies Losse hath made the soule a gainer,
172
They cannot separate us from the Love of God,
20…
Tokens and pledges of Gods Love and favour,
177
Never any have had so bitter draughts upon earth, as those God loves best,
225
The good we have by our enemies, should tutor us to Love them,
179
As troubles arise, our Lusts decline,
23
M
THat we have beene vicious Magnifies the power and goodnesse of God, makes for our credit,
79, 80
Cautions and rules to be observed, when we appeale to the Magistrate,
68 to 171
We may crave the Magistrates aide,
164 to 171
The Magistrates office to right our wrongs;
166 to 169
When displeased with others, they teare the name of their Maker in peeces,
84
To turne our Malice from the person to the sin,
97 to 100
Malice makes a man captive to Satan,
103, 104
As the outward Man decayeth, the inward Man is renewed,
22 to 25
Infidels wonne by seeing the Martyrs so patient,
133
The Martyrs overcame by dying,
84
Commonly the Measure of our sufferings according to the measure of grace in us, and Gods love to us,
224
To live by faith when forsaken of Meanes, is thought worthy a crowne,
212
God not seldome workes by contrary Meanes,
8
All one with God to work, with, without or against Meanes,
8
Mecknesse of spirit drawes on injuries,
167
Peter more Merry in prison, than Caiphas on the judgement-seat,
101, 102
Gods least Mercy beyond our best merit,
235
Afflictions Gods Messengers sent to do an errand to us,
49 to 52
God more Mighty to save us, than all our enemies to hurt us,
204
Nothing by our second birth but is Miraculous, in comparison of our naturall condition,
…10 …11
Diverse Christian Miracles,
110, 111
Patience a Miracle,
112
A Miserable thing to bee exempt from miseries,
227
None so Miserable, but some others would change calamities with him,
103
We make our selves more Miserable, by looking upon our miseries in a multiplying glasse,
234
We learne More by one weekes Misery, than many yeeres prosperity could teach us,
17,
N
Milde Natures best to others, worst to themselves,
167
Nature jocund whiles it prospereth,
244
Nature must not stand in competition with grace,
113, 114
Need will make us both humble and eloquent,
27
Neglect will sooner kill an injury than revenge,
85 to 94
He truly Noble, that can doe ill and will not,
80 to 85
Nothing but is good for something,
286
O
ENough for One to be angry at a time,
90
Oppo…ion may not be righted by violence, but by law,
144
… the ground of Order,
9
God disposeth of every crosse to his glory and Our good,
193 to 222
In Outward things Gods enemies may fare better than his friends,
230
If Outward things frame not to our mindes, frame wee our mindes to be content with what God sends,
112, 244, 245
A question whether the injoying or contemning of Outward things bee the greater happinesse,
31
The Outward man diseased, that the inward man may be cured,
43 to 49
The injoyment of Outward things might indanger my soule,
43 to 49
P
EVery Pang a prevention of the pa…es of hell, and every respite an earnest of Heavens rest,
240
Even Paine diminished with patience;
111
Our Paines will shortly passe, but our joyes shall never passe away,
239
Wee feele a little Paine in the finger, a great deale more than the health of the whole body,
240
Our Payne short, our joy eternall,
105
Christ past from the Crosse into Paradise,
240
Philosophers Pardon their enemies, we love ours,
151
Passionate men short lived,
92 to 95
He fuller of Passion than reason, that flames at every vaine puffe,
90, 91
Patient, because God commands us,
142
Patience a counterpoyson against griefe,
110 to 115
Patience as Larde to the leane meat of adversity,
110 111
Hope and Patience, two universall remedies,
110 to 115
Patience sweetens affliction,
110 to 115
The Patient out-live the passionate,
92 to 95
A continued Patience may be different from what is goodnesse,
150
Patience in imitation of Christ and the Saints,
156 to 162
Patience sometimes a Pully to draw on more injuries,
162, 163
How Patient our Saviour was,
157 158
The way to be Patient,
72, 73
Many will accept of Peace, that wil not sue for it,
134, 135
Our Peace would lose us, if we did not a little lose our peace,
176
God gives that Peace, which the world can neither give nor take away,
254
An idle singularity to affect Peace both here and hereafter,
243
First to assay all good meanes of Peace and agreement,
168
We had Perished, if we had not perished,
176
Perseverance a kinde of all in all,
216
God gives us Physick, that we may not dye,
46, 47
The Physitian knowes what is best for the patient,
177
Philosophers came short of Christians in patience,
184 to 157
We cannot Pleasure Gods servants more then by despighting them,
104 to 115
Gods People choose rather to suffer adversity, than to injoy the pleasures of sin,
23…
Their Pleasure short, their paine everlasting,
105
We cannot Pleasure our selves more than by a silent suffering,
88
Plenty of the choisest dainty no dainty,
63
Their Plots to destroy us, do much advantage us,
7, 8, 9
Not the Punishment but the sin troubles them,
97 to 100
The evill of Punishment, expels the evill of sin,
43 to 49
The infliction of a lesse Punishment oft-times prevents a greater,
178
To thinke that God will not Protect and provide for his, were to derogate from his wisdome, Power, and goodnesse, yea 'twere against reason,
181 to 184
That a strong opposition makes for the glory of Gods Power,
4 to 7
Gods Power best appeares in our weaknesse,
6
If we want faith, Patience, and wisdome, to make a right use of the crosse, we must pray for it,
183
Our praise to be dispraised of them,
127 to 133
They that forsake the Law Praise the wicked,
127
They are words & not Prayers which fal from carelesse lips,
27
Private persons may not revenge,
166
Our Present sufferings the fittest and wholesomest physick,
48
God lets us bloud to prevent a worse mischiefe,
43 to 49
Five Prerogatives of a Christians patience,
150, 151
The Priviledges which redownd to us by suffering,
247
Pride first put on, and last put off,
94, &c.
To have Profi…ed by affliction, an evident signe we belong to God,
172▪
We are ready to shrinke from Christ, when Profits or pleasures shrinke from us,
244
A recapitulation of severall Promises,
248, 249.256, 257.
Prosperity feeds pride, and keepes off repentance,
32
Commonly the Lord makes our latter end so much the more Prosperous, by how much more our former time hath beene miserable and adverse▪
216, to 220
Of which many examples,
216 to 220
The more Prosperity, the lesse piety,
20 to 25
Prosperity too strong wine for a weake braine,
31
If the Lord Prune his Vine, he meanes not to root it up,
46
To avenge our selves, is to lose Gods Protection,
146, 147
We are kept low, that we may not be Proud,
44
The Purpose of affliction is to make us earnest with God,
26
Q
OVr Quarrels make both Divell and Lawyers sport,
…8
R
RAge not ingendred but by the concurrence of cholera,
85 to 94
If we suffer, it is that we may Raigne,
177
Suffer with Christ, and Raigne with him,
239
Reasons of affliction, sixteene,
4
Whereof three concerne Gods glory,
4 to 14
Thirteene our good,
14 to 73
Whether our wisdome be improved, or our lives Reformed, by what we have suffered,
172
The godly may well Rejoyce in tribulation,
256
S. Paul Rejoyced in nothing more than afflictions, reproaches, persecution, &c.
255
The godly rejoyce alwayes, the wicked for a fit only,
243
No Release without repentance,
18, 19
God loves to send Releese when we least look for it,
205
Religion and persecution inseparable,
1, 2, 3▪
Religion allowes as much of the Serpent as of the Dove,
163
We can neither indure the malady, nor the Remedy,
254
Persecution will follow Remission of sins,
1, 2, 3
The end of passion the beginning of Repentance,
136
Repentance can only prevent the eternall displeasure of God,
22…
Repentance removes affliction,
18, 1…
Affliction makes us repent of f… we never dreamt of,
15
The way not to Repine at those above us, is to looke at those below us,
233
The Reproach of an enemy brings us to see our faults,
94
Iudas his depraving Mary, turned to her great Renowne,
132
Lawfull to seek Restitution,
167
It is enough that when we are dead, we shall Rest in the Land of Promise,
232
Some carnall Reasons for revenge answered,
154
CHRIST not yet Revenged of his enemies,
15…
Both the Law of Nature, and Law of Nations forbids revenge,
14…, 144
If wee miscarry in seeking Revenge, … no comfort,
146, 147
He that takes Revenge, makes himselfe both Iudge, witnesse, accuser, and executioner,
139, 140
To Revenge is to take Gods office out of his hand,
137 to 142
The Lord will Revenge our wrongs,
121.137 to 142
Revenge a remedy worse than the disease,
85 to 94
Patience the most divine and Christian-like Revenge
84
Great is their Reward which suffer for righteousnesse,
237, 238
The more we suffer, the greater our Reward,
237 to 246
Were every paine we suffer a death, and every crosse an hell, yet we shall have amends enough,
106, 107
Patience shall have a temporall Reward also,
108 to 115
If not, patience were a sufficient Reward to it selfe,
110 to 115
We shall beare the crosse more comfortably, if we think upon the Reward promised,
237 to 246
Patient, because patience brings a Reward,
103 to 115
Hope of Reward should make us patient,
102
Our Reward answerable to our sufferings,
242
The greater our sufferings here, the greater our Reward hereafter,
242
Rich men neglect God most,
32
Rules to be observed in suffering,
162 to 179
S
SAtan can doe any thing by permission, nothing without,
198 199
Satan is limited, and can goe no farther than his chaine will reach,
198, 199
God will never give Satan leave to doe the least hurt to our soules,
199
Satan injoyned silence,
128, 129
If Satan cannot hurt us; much lesse his instruments weake men,
199, 200
Our Saviours whole life from his cradle to his grave a continuall act of suffering,
233
The Saints patience,
159 to 162
To search whether the report be true or no,
97, 98
Their scoffes noble badges of honour and Innocency,
132
If beaten off from our profession wiith scoffes, we are but counterfeits,
173
The Scriptures written for our learning patience, comfort and hope,
…6
Security the cause of corruption,
…75
Affliction separates the good and bad,
37 to 43
We take deeper roote by shaking,
45
We remember one dayes sicknesse more than many yeares health,
234
The sick servant hath not strong meates given him, as the rest have,
226
An enemy most vexed with silence,
123 to 126
Silence the way royall to correct a wrong,
80 to 85
Silence will either drayne the gall ou… of bitter spirits, or make it more overflow to their owne disgrace,
124
Silence in case of personall wrongs, but not in the causes of God and Religion,
125
Our Saviour a patterne for silent suffering,
96, 97
Silence one kinde of revenge,
123 to 126
Affliction discovers whether we are sincere or not,
37 to 43
Sinne the sling of all troubles,
147
Our sincerity cannot bee approved without suffering,
244
Chastisements (after the sinne is remitted) may bee deadly,
227
Every word they speake of us is a slander, be it good or ill,
127 to 133
A slanderer doth but shame himselfe,
119
None ever was that was not slandered,
139
Better smart for a while than for ever
177
Our songs shall be lowder than our cryes.
64
Commonly they know not GOD that know no sorrowes,
18
The soule cannot live while the sinne lives,
19
GOD regardeth the soules good, and his owne glory,
254
Our soules shall loose nothing but their drosse,
202
The soule waxeth as the body waineth,
66
We have the presence of Gods spirit and grace many times, and feele it not,
220
To rejoyce when they speake evill of us,
132
The sharpe water of affliction quickens our spirituall sight,
49 to 52
To bee evill spoken of for well doing peculier to the godly,
127 to 133
If God stay long, yet hee will bee sure to come at l…ngth,
58, 59
Steven a true Scholler of Christ,
159, 160
Of all stormes a calme the greatest,
227
A stoute Christian beares off one mischiefe with another,
68, 69
Though the Divell strikes at our names, his ayme is to slay our soules,
172
We may well take a few stripes, where we receive so much good,
100 to 103
Receive his stripes with all humility, patience, pie…y and thankfulnesse,
176
That stripes from the Almighty are speciall tokens and pledges of his adoption and love,
222 to 229
Nothing more proves us Gods than his stripes,
22…
Not bound to tender our throates to an unjust …,
162 to …
Our sufferings may aggravate, cannot redresse our miseries,
176
A man that studies revenge, keepes his woundes greene and open,
91
We must suffer with Christ that wee may raigne with him,
52 to 54
Our sufferings are registred, our teares botled up,
191 192
We suffer here that we may not suffer hereafter,
43 to 49
Our sufferings farre lesse than our sinnes have deserved,
235
By suffering we become followers of all the Saints,
53, 54
Our patience shall be proportionable to our sufferings, & our strength equalled to our temptations,
219
Our sufferings nothing to what others have suffered, of which diverse examples,
229 to 237
When God calles us to suffer he gives answerable strength and courage,
226
Wee shall suffer no more than we are able to beare,
200
Than shall be for our good,
200
Suffering the only way to prevent suffering,
85 to 94
Wee may well suffer patiently, when we know wee suffer justly,
94 to 100
When we suffer, we bethinke our selves of what we …
94, 95
…cious, nor lightly credulous,
…64
Love doth neither allow suspition nor thrust o…t discretion,
164
After we have swet and smarted six dayes, …omes a Sabbath of eternall rest,
241
To fulfill the substance, when we faile in the i…ition, and erre in circumstances, is sinfull,
186
T
TO tarry the Lords leasure,
214
The Lord either takes troubles from us, or us from troubles,
215
The water of our lakes shall be turned into the wine of endlesse comfort,
237 to 246
Our suffringe make us teachable,
64 to 67
Prayer, reading, meditation and contemplation, makes a Divine,
67
With Iob we must not onelyonly be patient, but thankefull,
102
We may thanke our enemies, or must thanke God for our enemies,
22
Rules touching our thoughts,
164
God hath set downe a certaine period of time when to deliver thee, and till then thou must wait,
213
Of which many examples,
213 to 215
We measure the length of time by the sharpnesse of our afflictions,
2…
God will doe all in due time, that is, in his time, n… in our… ▪
…
In some cases …ration unexpedien…,
162 to 171
We may well suffer their tongues, so long as we are delivered out of their hands,
116
The lewd tongue or hand moves from God, it moves lewdly from Satan,
185 186
Their evill tongues make us live good lives,
22
A man of a good life feares not him that hath an evill tongue.
127 to 133
God traines us up by degrees,
226
Our enemies cannot cannot deprive us of our spirituall treasure here, nor eternall hereafter,
202 203
Be our tryals great, salvation will one day make aamends for all,
237 to 246
Affliction tryes our sincerity, perseverance, and constancy,
40 to 43
We esteeme our inches Elles, till by tryall wee finde the contrary,
49 to 52
Tribulation the most sincere Divinity,
67
Tribulation increaseth patience,
67 to 73
Men tryed in the furnace of adversity, as gold in the …ire,
37 to 4…
If our troubles be light and few, it is because we are weake and tender,
2…6
Many and great are the troubles of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth them out of all,
215
Passe through a sea of troubles to the haven of eternall rest,
107
Kisse the hand which strikes us, trust in that power which kills us,
57 58
We are not trusted with all our portion, lest wee should spend it,
43 to 49
V
VEx them when they wrong us, and they will wrong us more,
85 to 94
The impatient vex themselves, because another hath vexed them▪
91, 92
To vex as an enemy, is to further an enemies spight,
125
To vex other men is to tutor them how they should againe vex us,
85 to 94
The victory which is got by mildnesse is perpetuall,
135
Love is stronger after such a reconcilement,
135
The noblest victory to overcome evill with goodnesse,
80 to 85
A great victory gotten and no blow striken,
89
Our good behaviour will vindicate us from ill report,
139
Vice drawes death with a horrid looke, but so doth not vertue,
148
Afflictions as we use them,
111
Vse and application of the 32 reasons,
171 to 184
W
WAnt teacheth the worth of things most truly,
59 to 64
When we Want nothing here, we forget our home above,
175
…etter Want any thing than our selves,
45 to 52
Affliction makes us Watch and prepare,
35, 36
Christs Wayes different from ours,
251, 252
Afflictions Weane us from the love of the World,
28 to 35
The persecutor more Weary than the persecuted,
106
Ne…er Weary of receiving, soone weary of attending,
244
We may well suspect our selves, if they speak Well of us,
127 to 13…
W…l…h like a treacherous dye,
31
It Whe…s our appetite to be held fasting,
26, 27
The Wicked like some beasts grow mad with b…iting,
176
Wicked men hate the godly,
1, 2, 3
None but simple or wicked men Will beleeve their slanders,
132
In resisting the Will of God they do fulfill it,
197, 198
The Churches enemies doe even performe that Will of the Almighty which they least think of, and most oppose,
197, 198
We must …aste of our Saviours bitter potion, before … drinke his Wine of endlesse comfort,
243, 244
We … them that we may Win them,
133 to 137
That which makes the body smart, makes the soule Wise,
… to 67
It makes for the glory of his Wisdome,
7, 8, 9
A Wise Christian will doe good to them that doe hurt to him, in policy,
85 to 94
Stripes make us Wise,
64 to 67
It is the Wise mans portion to suffer of fooles,
116
A Wise man regards not what fooles say,
115 to 118
All humane Wisdome is defective,
145, 146
Its enough for Wisdome to be justified of her children,
116
Simple as Doves in offending others, but Wise as Serpents in defending our selves,
163
Mercy ought to be guided by Wisdome,
162 to 171
Could we sit downe and obtaine our Wishes, we should strangely intangle our selves,
253, 254
Looke to the reward, and thou wouldest not wis… the Worke easier,
2…
We must not set our Wit to theirs,
115 to 118
Our owne Wit will befoole us,
145, 146
Gods dealing in this particular, should move Wonder to astonishment,
178
Afflictions so overcome us, that they overcome the love of the World in us,
30
If we be Gods servants, the World and the Devill will let flye at us,
1, 2, 3
This World pleasant to travell through, but not safe to dwell in,
175
The very Heathens rather hated than loved this World,
31
This World will not last ever,
107, 108
Our actions at last will out-weigh their Words,
139
Their Words can do us neither good nor hurt,
121
Their Words must be spelled backwards,
132
He which cannot endure Words for Christ, would never endure wounds for him,
85
If we cannot avoide ill Words, our care must be not to deserve them,
79, 80
Rules touching our Words,
164 to 167
Gods Workes not to be judged untill the fifth act,
208
If wee would prevaile with God, we must Wrestle,
27
So to remit Wrongs, as not to incourage or provoke them,
167
We may commit a greater Wrong in putting up an injury, than in punishing the doer of it,
168
Y
YEelding, the only way of overcomming,
8…
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